National Affairs: Can We or Not?

Following the controversy over the right of the United States to
increase the angle of its naval guns comes information from France
that the range of French battleships is being increased. The
implication which generally goes with this information is that what
France has a right to do under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty
(which she has not yet signed) we have also a right to do.

The cases are not parallel, however, since there is a special provision
of the treaty allowing France and Italy to reconstruct their capital
ships in respects not...